Combined carriage jack and wrench



(No Model.)

W. A. STOWELL, COMBINED CARRIAGE JACK AND WRENGH.

No. 543,661. v Patented July 30, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. sToWELL, or MONTPELIER, VERMONT.

COMBINED CARRIAGE JACK AND WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,661, dated July 30, 1895. Application filed April 9, 1894. serial No. 506,967. (No m del.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. STOWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montpelier, in the county of Washington and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Carriage Jack and Wrench, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings, forming a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents the apparatus embodying my present invention, illustrating its method of application to the axle of a carriage. Fig. 2 represents a .portion of the body of the carriage-jack with the wrench removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the wrench detached from the body of the carriage-jack; and Fig. 4: represents that portion of the body of the carriage-jack, as shown in Fig. 2, with the wrench attached thereto, .the wrench being shown in central sectional view and with the cap removed from the spring case or chamber, so as to disclose the locking-bolt and its actuating-spring, by which one end of the wrench is attached to the body of the carriage-jack.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the difierent figures.

My invention relates to that class of carriage-jacks which are adapted to'support the axle of the carriage and rest upon the hub of the carriage-wheel after it has been removed from the axle; and it consists in certain improvements in the combined carriage jack and wrench forming the subject of my application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 497,842, filed January 20, 1894.

Referring to the drawings, A denotes the body of the carriage-jack provided at its ends with feet A A and having near one end a suspended hook A The jack is provided with a handle A at one end, and in use of the jack the foot A is placed upon the top of the axle B with the book A beneath the axle near the hub of the wheel B, and the axle and wheel are lifted by means of the handle A when the wheel B can be removed from the axle into the position indicated by the broken lines 13 Fig. 1, and the foot A lowered to rest upon the hub 13, thereby suspending the axle.

Instead of permanently attaching the handle A to the body of the jack it is placed upon the end of a rotating screw 0, which is journaled in a bar 0, provided with a fixed jaw C at one end and having ways C adapted to receive a sliding jaw 0 The sliding jaw C is provided with a screw-threaded hole C to receive the rotating screw 0, and as the screw 0 is held from longitudinal movement in the bar 0' its rotation will cause the jaw G to slide along the ways C The bar 0' is detaphably connected with the body A of the jack by means of two hooks DD at one end of the bar, which engage studs D, projecting from opposite sides of the jack, only one of the studs being represented in the drawings. The opposite end of the bar is provided with two cars or lugs O, which inclose a lug F, projecting from the upper edge of the jack,'in order to hold the bar 0 from lateral'movement. The end of the bar 0 is also provided with a hole G to receive a spring-actuated bolt H, having a sliding motion in the lug F and actuated by a spring H, held within a chamber F, formed within the lug F and covered by a cap F The cap F is provided with a slot F3, through which a pin F extends, which is carried by the sliding bolt H, in order to withdraw the bolt H and release the bar 0. When the bar 0 and screw 0 are in position, as represented in Figs. 1 and 4, they form a portion of the jack capable of being detached from the body A, as represented in Fig. 3, and capable of separate use for the purposes of a wrench.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The device comprising the lever A, provided with feet A and A? at its opposite ends, and a suspension hook A supported by said lever, of a bar 0 lying parallel with said lever and having one end detachably attached to said lever midway its feet A, A and having the opposite end of said bar 0, detachably attached to one end of said lever A, fixed and movable jaws carried by said bar 0, an actuating screw journaled in said bar 0 and extending beyond the end of said lever A and forming a handle A, substantially as described.

2. A device comprising the lever A, provided with the feet A and A and a suspension hook A connected to said lever, studs D projecting from said lever, detachable bar C provided with a pair of jaws, hooks D, D on said bar engaging the stud D, handle A carried by said bar and a spring actuated latch held by the lever A and engaging said 5 bar, substantially as described.

3. A device comprising the lever A provided with the feet A and A and a suspension hook A of a bar 0 detachably connected with said lever and provided with a 10 recess G, a lug F on said lever, asliding spring actuated bolt held by said lug and entering said recess, lugs or ears 0, C inclosing said lug F, hooks D engaging studs on said lever 

